Nakatake, JP
Hiromasa Nakatake, Saitama JP
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20140139073 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE - A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece, a lid portion, and a base portion. The piezoelectric vibrating piece includes: a vibrating portion; a framing portion surrounding the vibrating portion; an excitation electrode in the vibrating portion; and an extraction electrode electrically connected to the excitation electrode in the framing portion. The lid portion is bonded to a front surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece via a bonding material. The base portion includes an external electrode bonded to a back surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece via a bonding material and electrically connected to the extraction electrode. The excitation electrode and the extraction electrode each include: a foundation film formed of metal to be rendered passive; and a first metal film and a second metal film laminated to the foundation film. The foundation film has a film thickness of 1.0 nm to 8.0 nm. | 05-22-2014 |
20140252919 | PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICE - A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece, a lid portion, and a base portion. The piezoelectric vibrating piece includes a vibrating portion, a framing portion surrounding the vibrating portion, an excitation electrode on the vibrating portion, and an extraction electrode on the framing portion. The extraction electrode is electrically connected to the excitation electrode. The lid portion is bonded to a front surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The base portion is bonded to a back surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The base portion includes an external electrode electrically connected to the extraction electrodes. The framing portion includes a metallic layer that allows a passivation. The metallic layer is disposed at an outer peripheral edge portion corresponding to the extraction electrode on at least one of a front surface and a back surface. | 09-11-2014 |
Hiroshi Nakatake, Kumamoto-Ken JP
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20090137001 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING RECOMBINANT HUMAN THROMBIN WITH CULTURE CELL - The present invention provides for a process for preparing a recombinant human thrombin. A process for preparing a recombinant human thrombin which comprises: (1) obtaining a transfectant cell producing a human prothrombin by introducing an expression vector, wherein a gene fragment coding for a human prothrombin gene is incorporated, into an animal cell; (2) purifying a human prothrombin from the culture of the transfectant cell above by an anion exchanger; (3) converting the purified human prothrombin into a human thrombin by subjecting said human prothrombin to the action of ecarin; and (4) purifying the human thrombin from the solution after treatment with ecarin by an affinity method using benzamidine and a cation exchanger, and human thrombin obtained by said process, and a CHO cell that produces human prothrombin. | 05-28-2009 |
20100285568 | RECOMBINANT FACTOR X WITH NO GLYCOSYLATION AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - A Factor X (hereinafter referred to as “FX”) with a high activity is provided. The present invention relates to a method for efficiently preparing a recombinant, two-chain FX which comprises intervening glycosylation at such an amino acid sequence that is essential for glycosylation in FX to thereby allow for expression of a recombinant FX with no glycosylation, and the recombinant FX with no glycosylation obtained by said method. | 11-11-2010 |
20110262998 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING INCLUSION BODY-FORMING PROTEIN - A process for preparing an inclusion body-forming protein is provided. A nucleic acid fragment consisting of a nucleotide sequence coding for a modified alkaline phosphatase signal peptide (modified APSP) where leucine at the 13th position in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with proline and/or alanine at the 21st position is substituted with the other amino acid, downstream of which nucleotide sequence is bound a nucleotide sequence of a gene of a protein of interest, and a process for preparing an inclusion body-forming protein consisting of the following steps: (1) preparing an expression vector in which a nucleic acid fragment is incorporated consisting of a nucleotide sequence coding for a modified signal peptide downstream of which is bound a nucleotide sequence of a gene of a protein of interest, (2) preparing a host cell transformed with the expression vector that produces an inclusion body-forming protein, and (3) purifying the inclusion body-forming protein from culture obtained by culturing the host cell that produces the inclusion body-forming protein. The above other amino acid is selected from the group consisting of aspartic acid, glutamic acid, lysine, histidine, phenylalanine and tyrosine. | 10-27-2011 |
Hiroshi Nakatake, Tokyo JP
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20100213989 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT - To obtain a gate driving circuit in which rising of a constant current of a constant current circuit is fast and power saving is achieved, the gate driving circuit includes: a constant current driving circuit ( | 08-26-2010 |
20100231269 | DRIVE CIRCUIT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A drive circuit wherein any abnormality of a semiconductor element is prevented from being erroneously sensed in a case where a gate “ON” command has entered in a state in which a gate voltage of the semiconductor element has not lowered fully. A detection process for a controlled variable of the semiconductor element is permitted only within a period which corresponds to a controlled variable of the semiconductor element at the time when an “ON” signal has been inputted to a control circuit, and a detected controlled variable which is detected within the period and a comparison controlled variable which is set in correspondence with the controlled variable are compared so as to output an abnormality signal, whereby the semiconductor element is turn-off at a speed lower than in normal turn-off. | 09-16-2010 |
20120013371 | GATE DRIVING CIRCUIT - A gate driving circuit for driving a voltage-driven switching device is provided with a current limiting circuit for limiting a gate current ig that flows into a gate terminal through a gate resistor at turn-on to a current limit value IL which defines an upper limit value. The current limit value IL is set at a value which is larger than a gate current value I | 01-19-2012 |
20120126791 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An output of a current sensing cell is connected to an inverting input terminal of an operational amplifier, and a non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to the source, of the main cell, to which a source-bias voltage is applied; a current/voltage conversion circuit configured with the operational amplifier and a sensing resistor converts an output current of the current sensing cell into a sensing voltage; there are provided a first error detection circuit that compares the sensing voltage with a first reference voltage and outputs an error signal and a second error detection circuit that compares a voltage at the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier with a second reference voltage set to be higher than the source-bias voltage and outputs an error signal. | 05-24-2012 |
20120153998 | GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT - A gate drive circuit capable of turning on a semiconductor switching element at high speed, which includes: a buffer circuit including a turn-on-drive switching element and a turn-off-drive switching element that are complementarily turned on and off, for driving the semiconductor switching element; a first DC voltage supply including a positive electrode connected to the source or emitter of the turn-on-drive switching element and a negative electrode connected to a reference potential; and a second DC voltage supply including a positive electrode connected to the source or emitter of the turn-off-drive switching element and a negative electrode connected to the reference potential. | 06-21-2012 |
20130153900 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device capable of rapidly and accurately sensing the information regarding the temperature of a semiconductor transistor contained therein. A MOSFET includes a plurality of cells, and includes a main cell group including a cell for supplying a current to a load among the plurality of cells, and a sense cell group including a cell for sensing temperature information regarding the temperature of the MOSFET thereamong. The main cell group and the sense cell group have different temperature characteristics showing changes in electrical characteristics to changes in temperature. A temperature sensing circuit senses the temperature of the MOSFET based on, for example, a value of a main current flowing through the main cell group and a value of a sense current flowing through the sense cell group. | 06-20-2013 |
Hiroshi Nakatake, Nagoya-Shi JP
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20120066525 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - The rotating speed of a cooling fan is controlled in accordance with the number of devices connected to ports of a packet transmitting/receiving unit and a connection speed with that device. When the number of ports establishing a link at a speed of 1 Gbps is zero, the voltage value of power output from a power source block to the cooling fan is 0 V and the cooling fan is deactivated. When the number of ports establishing a link at a speed of 1 Gbps is one or two, the voltage value is 8 V and the cooling fan rotates in a slow mode. Furthermore, when the number of ports establishing a link at a speed of 1 Gbps is three or four, the voltage value is 12 V and the cooling fan rotates in a fast mode. | 03-15-2012 |
20120114057 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION NOTIFYING METHOD - A wireless communication device or an access point includes: a main unit; an external antenna unit; a throughput check module; and a notification controller, a notice applying circuit and a notice generating circuit. The main unit is for including a communication control circuit. The external antenna unit is for including an antenna and is electrically connected with the main unit via a cable. The throughput check module is for checking throughput of communication with another wireless communication device or a station. The notification controller, the notice applying circuit and the notice generating circuit are for notifying a user of system information based on check result by the throughput check module, by using the external antenna unit. This configuration improves the work efficiency of antenna adjustment at the wireless communication device using the external antenna unit. | 05-10-2012 |
20130217340 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR THE SAME - A wireless communication device that performs, during wireless communication using a first channel, multiple cycles of a detection operation to detect a predetermined radio wave in a second channel different from the first channel; and sets the second channel as an available channel when a total time of the multiple cycles of the detection operation amounts to at least a first predetermined time and when the predetermined radio wave is not detected during execution of the detection operation. | 08-22-2013 |
Hiroshi Nakatake, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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20140055190 | GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT - A gate drive circuit for driving an IGBT serving as a power semiconductor device includes a constant-current gate drive circuit that charges a gate capacity of the IGBT at a constant current, and a constant-voltage gate drive circuit that is connected in parallel to the constant-current gate drive circuit between input and output terminals thereof via a series circuit constituted by a MOSFET and a resistor, and charges the gate capacity of the IGBT at a constant voltage, wherein the gate drive circuit charges the gate capacity of the IGBT using both the constant-current gate drive circuit and the constant-voltage gate drive circuit at the time of driving the IGBT. | 02-27-2014 |
20150023081 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A power semiconductor module capable of reducing variation of inductance between upper/lower arms and reducing variation of current caused by the variation of inductance. The power semiconductor module includes circuit blocks (upper/lower arms) each of which is configured by connecting self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements in series; a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and an AC terminal that are connected to each of the circuit blocks; and wiring patterns that connect the self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements of the circuit blocks to the positive electrode terminal, the negative electrode terminal, and the AC terminal, wherein the circuit block is plural in number; the positive electrode terminal, the negative electrode terminal, and the AC terminal are each disposed to be plural in number corresponding to the circuit blocks; and the positive electrode terminals and the negative electrode terminals are closely disposed. | 01-22-2015 |
Hiroshi Nakatake, Kikuchi-Shi JP
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20120039863 | RECOMBINANT FACTOR X WITH NO GLYCOSYLATION AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - A Factor X (hereinafter referred to as “FX”) with a high activity is provided. The present invention relates to a method for efficiently preparing a recombinant, two-chain FX which comprises intervening glycosylation at such an amino acid sequence that is essential for glycosylation in FX to thereby allow for expression of a recombinant FX with no glycosylation, and the recombinant FX with no glycosylation obtained by said method. | 02-16-2012 |
20120231523 | RECOMBINANT FACTOR X WITH NO GLYCOSYLATION AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - A Factor X (hereinafter referred to as “FX”) with a high activity is provided. The present invention relates to a method for efficiently preparing a recombinant, two-chain FX which comprises intervening glycosylation at such an amino acid sequence that is essential for glycosylation in FX to thereby allow for expression of a recombinant FX with no glycosylation, and the recombinant FX with no glycosylation obtained by said method. | 09-13-2012 |
Koji Nakatake, Nagano JP
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20090212655 | AIRTIGHT-TYPE ELECTRIC MOTOR - An airtight-type electric motor capable of reducing vibration is provided. Inside ribs of a pair of end brackets and are respectively fitted into core end portions of a stator core. Outside ribs of the pair of end brackets and are respectively brought into contact against end surfaces of the core end portions of a yoke of the stator core. With this arrangement, the pair of end brackets and are fixed to the stator core, and a housing and the stator core are arranged, without being coupled together. | 08-27-2009 |
20110138947 | LINEAR ACTUATOR - A linear actuator that does not require a high assembly precision is provided. A linear actuator includes a motor portion including a rotary shaft, a rotor, and a stator, a first bearing portion that supports a first end of the rotary shaft, a locknut threadably engaged on the first end of the rotary shaft, and a ball screw mechanism including a ball screw nut screwed to the locknut and a ball screw threadably engaged with the ball screw nut. Gaps formed between an outer peripheral portion of the rotary shaft and an inner peripheral portion of the locknut, except a male thread portion formed on the rotary shaft and a female thread portion formed on the locknut threadably engaged with each other, are defined to have respective predetermined sizes. | 06-16-2011 |
20110140557 | LINEAR ACTUATOR - A linear actuator having an output shaft with a long moving distance is provided. A linear actuator includes a rotary shaft, a motor portion having a rotor and a stator, a ball screw mechanism including a ball screw nut fixed to a first end of the rotary shaft and a ball screw, a casing assembly including a first end bracket and a second end bracket, an electromagnetic brake device including a rotary brake disc, a stationary brake disc, and an electromagnetic coil, and a brake cover for covering the electromagnetic brake device. The electromagnetic brake device has a hollow structure allowing a second end of the rotary shaft to pass therethrough. | 06-16-2011 |
Kouji Nakatake, Nagano JP
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20100225185 | STATOR FOR ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - A pair of connecting wire hooks are disposed on both sides of a nozzle receiving groove in an extended slot space (a first extended space) to sandwich an extended portion of an extended virtual space (a third extended space). In this configuration, the pair of connecting wire hooks are not located within the third extended space. Thus, in the stator for rotary electric machine, the space factor of the winding portion may be increased in a situation where the connecting wire hook is disposed within the first extended space. | 09-09-2010 |
Kouji Nakatake, Tokyo JP
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20130154433 | STATOR AND PROTECTING MEMBER FOR STATOR - There is provided a stator that can suppress degradation in insulating performance and electrical strength performance, shorten a work time, and improve winding efficiency and heat radiation. The stator | 06-20-2013 |
20130154435 | STATOR - There is provided a stator that suppresses degradation in insulating performance and pressure-resisting performance without an additional insulating member, that can shorten a work time, and improve winding efficiency of a wound wire and heat radiation performance. The stator | 06-20-2013 |
20140152131 | WIRING STRUCTURE OF STATOR COIL - Electrical insulation properties of winding start ends or terminal ends of insulating coating electric wires of coils wound around polar teeth of a stator core are improved, and creeping and spatial distances for electrical insulation are secured. Wall portions which project toward an interior of a radial direction or an exterior of an axial direction of a stator core and which have electrical insulation properties are formed in an inner peripheral portion of the stator core of a motor, groove portions are formed in the wall portions and winding start ends or terminal ends of insulating coating electric wires of coils are arranged in the groove portions. | 06-05-2014 |
20140292129 | THIN MOTOR - A thin motor includes a rotor | 10-02-2014 |
20150061452 | COIL INSULATING STRUCTURE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC MOTOR STATOR - A coil is wound via an electrically insulating member within a slot of a stator core of an electromagnetic motor which is formed of a stator and a rotor. Groove portions are formed to oppose one another in respective opposing portions of a slot opening portion side of the electrically insulating member. An electrically insulating sheet is disposed by being inserted into the pair of groove portions. | 03-05-2015 |
Masato Nakatake, Tokyo JP
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20140291944 | SUSPENSION DEVICE - A suspension device has longitudinal force compliance steer properties to steer a rear wheel to toe-in or toe-out according to increase in longitudinal force applied to wheel treads of a rear wheel. The suspension device includes: a hub bearing housing; suspension links having both edges pivotally attached to a vehicle body and a hub bearing respectively, to support the hub bearing housing; a suspension spring generating reaction force corresponding to relative displacement amount in the longitudinal direction of the hub bearing housing as to the vehicle body; a damper generating damping force corresponding to relative speed in the longitudinal direction of the hub bearing housing as to the vehicle body; and a toe change generating unit generating toe change in a direction where toe change due to longitudinal force compliance properties is temporarily cancelled out or suppressed at an early stage of turning of the vehicle. | 10-02-2014 |
Naoki Nakatake, Nishinomiya-Shi JP
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20090052952 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND TONER - An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member including a tube, the image bearing member to bear a latent electrostatic image, a development device including a pulverized toner including a resin, a coloring agent and a releasing agent component, the development device to develop the latent electrostatic image with the toner to form a visualized image on the image bearing member, a transfer device to transfer the visualized image to a recording medium, a fixing device including a fixing member, the fixing device to fix the visualized image on the recording medium and an elastic blade to remove the toner on the surface of the image bearing member, wherein the toner has a void ratio of from 52 to 58% and a toner torque of from 1.0 to 2.5 mNm according to a torque measuring method using a circular conical rotor and the following relationships (1) to (4) are satisfied: | 02-26-2009 |
Naoki Nakatake, Nishinomiya City JP
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20090041491 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, an image writing unit, a development unit, a transfer device, a charging device, and a toner charge control device. The image writing unit forms a latent image on the image carrying member, which is developed as a toner image by the development unit, and the toner image is transferred to a transfer member by the transfer device. The charging device charges the image carrying member and toner on the image carrying member. The toner charge control device, controls a polarity of charge and charging voltage level of toner remaining on the image carrying member. The toner charge control device includes an endless belt having a surface made of a conductive material, a support member extending the endless belt pressed against the image carrying member, and a bias voltage applicator for supplying a voltage to the surface of the endless belt. | 02-12-2009 |
Naoki Nakatake, Hyogo JP
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20080310896 | CLEANING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device capable of reducing the apparatus and prolonging the service life of the cleaning blade is disclosed. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade including an elastic blade, a pressing member disposed near the downstream side of the image carrier with respect to the elastic blade, and a driving mechanism for driving the pressing member so as to be in contact with and press the elastic blade. The driving mechanism operates so as to press the elastic blade in the upstream direction to separate the elastic blade from the surface of the image carrier for a while. Then, the driving mechanism operates to move the pressing member to be separated from the elastic blade so that the elastic blade is in contact with the surface of the image carrier. | 12-18-2008 |
20110064473 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier on which a latent image is formed, a charging device that charges the image carrier, an exposing device that irradiates the image carrier, thereby forming a latent image on the image carrier, a developing device that develops the latent image into a visible image by using a monocomponent developer that is carried and transferred by a developer carrier and that is charged to a predetermined polarity, and a toner supply container that is installed in the developing device for toner supply. Used old toner is conveyed from the developing device to the toner supply container and mixed with unused new toner within the toner supply container and thus a mixed toner is produced, and the mixed toner is supplied to the developing device. | 03-17-2011 |
20110188896 | DEVELOPING UNIT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A developing unit includes: a developer carrier; a toner supplying member having a porous surface layer; a toner storage storing therein toner; a stirring member that is rotated to stir the toner; a toner amount detecting unit that detects an amount of the toner; a toner supplying unit that supplies new toner to the toner storage based on a detection result; and a toner removing member that removes the toner carried in the porous surface layer, wherein the toner removing member is arranged in a separable and contactable manner from and with the porous surface layer, and the developing unit has a stirring mode in which the toner removing member is brought into contact with the porous surface layer, and the toner supplying member is rotated while the stirring member is rotated to stir the toner. | 08-04-2011 |
20110194864 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER SUPPLY METHOD - A toner supplying method for supplying toner from a toner container to a developing part that causes toner to adhere to a latent image formed on a latent image carrying member and develops the latent image, includes detecting a toner amount in the developing part as being equal to or less than a predetermined toner amount value; forming a fog detecting image in a case where the toner amount in the developing part is equal to or less than the predetermined toner amount value, and detecting fog; and determining based on the detected fog whether to execute a toner ejecting process of ejecting the toner remaining in the developing part toward the latent image carrying member before supplying the toner to the developing part from the toner container. | 08-11-2011 |
20110217055 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER SUPPLY METHOD - Toner is supplied from a toner container to a developing part that causes the toner to adhere to a latent image formed on a latent image carrying member and develops the latent image, a pre-toner-supply operation of supplying a predetermined amount of toner to the developing part is carried out, a fog detecting image is formed and fog is detected in the fog detecting image, a toner supply amount to be supplied to the developing part is determined based on the fog detected in the detecting and an operational status of the developing part since the toner was supplied to the developing part the last time, and the toner supply amount of the toner determined in the determining is supplied to the developing part. | 09-08-2011 |
20120033982 | TONER SUPPLY METHOD, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner supply method includes detecting whether a remaining toner amount in the development device is equal to or greater than a first remaining amount, supplying a first supply amount of toner to the development device in a first supply mode when the remaining toner amount is not greater than the first remaining amount, detecting whether the remaining toner amount in the development device is equal to or greater than a second remaining amount smaller than the first remaining amount, and supplying a second supply amount, smaller than the first supply amount, of toner to the development device in a second supply mode when the remaining toner amount is reduced to or below the second remaining amount. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033996 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, including an image developer to develop an electrostatic latent image and a toner provider to provide a toner from a toner container to the image developer in a direction of gravitational force. The toner container is capable of taking a first position of directing a toner outlet in a horizontal direction; a second position of directing the toner outlet in a direction of gravitational force; and a position of being removed, directing the toner outlet upward relative to the horizontal direction when further rotating from the first position. The toner container includes a main cap member to close the toner outlet when taking the first position and the position of being removed; and a sub-cap member to cover the main cap member while the toner container is displaced from the first position to the position of being removed. | 02-09-2012 |
20120189327 | DEVELOPER AMOUNT DETECTOR, AND DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a development housing, a first developer conveyance member, a developer bearer, and a developer amount detector to detect an amount of developer in the development housing. The developer amount detector includes a light-emitting element, a right-receiving element, a first light guide including a first end from which light enters and a second end disposed inside the development housing, and a second light guide including a first end positioned inside the development housing across a predetermined distance from the second end of the first light guide and a second end from which the light exits. The second end of the first light guide and the first end of the second light guide are arranged in an axial direction of the first developer conveyance member with a light transmission path therebetween partly inside a locus of rotation of the first developer conveyance member. | 07-26-2012 |
20120189350 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, DEVELOPER CONTAINER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A development device includes a housing for containing developer, a developer bearer to carry by rotation the developer contained in the housing to a development range position facing a latent image bearer, and developer conveyance device that includes a rotary shaft, a conveyance blade extending axially along the rotary shaft, projecting from the rotary shaft, and extending obliquely to the rotary shaft, to transport developer as the rotary shaft rotates, and a flexible agitation blade provided to the rotary shaft. An axial range of the flexible agitation blade overlaps at least partially with that of the conveyance blade. The flexible agitation blade has a width wider than a width of the conveyance blade and extends beyond an outer edge of the conveyance blade in the direction of diameter of the rotary shaft. | 07-26-2012 |
20120237227 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TONER SUPPLYING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A control unit drives a driving unit for a correction driving time to supply toner to a developing unit from a toner supplying unit, when a detecting unit detects that an amount of toner stored in the developing unit is equal to or less than a threshold value. A calculating unit calculates an amount of toner consumption from when the toner is supplied to the developing unit to when the detecting unit detects that the amount of the toner stored in the developing unit is equal to or less than the threshold value. The control unit calculates a unit amount of toner supply from the correction driving time and the amount of toner consumption, and supplies the toner to the developing unit by driving the driving unit on the basis of the calculated unit amount of toner supply. | 09-20-2012 |
20130028638 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer container includes a container body in which a developer containing chamber and a discharge outlet are formed, a developer conveyance member disposed inside the developer containing chamber and including a first conveyance portion and a second conveyance portion downstream from the first conveyance portion in a developer conveyance director, a canopy disposed inside the container body and facing the discharge outlet, a developer conveyance chamber defined by the canopy and an inner face of the container body in which the discharge outlet is formed, and a return opening formed in the canopy downstream from the discharge outlet. A developer conveyance velocity (Q | 01-31-2013 |
20130058670 | IMAGE DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCLUDING IMAGE DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE INCLUDING IMAGE DEVELOPING DEVICE - An image developing device includes a developer supporting body; a first conveyance path in which a first conveyance member is arranged; a second conveyance path in which a second conveyance member is arranged; and a partition member that partitions the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path and that has a first communication port and a second communication port. The first communication path and the second communication path communicates with each other through the first communication port and the second communication port. The image developing device includes a developer amount detection unit that includes an optical detection unit arranged in the second conveyance path and that optically detects an amount of the developer in the image forming device. The developer is caused to accumulate in the vicinity of the developer amount detection unit. | 03-07-2013 |
20130195487 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a color image forming apparatus that includes: image carriers that form toner image of black and other colors; an intermediate transfer body that makes contact with the image carriers; and transfer units that transfer the toner images on the image carriers to the intermediate transfer body. A line velocity difference is set between the image carriers and the intermediate transfer body. An accelerated cohesion degree of toner is equal to or larger than 54%. A linear velocity difference X | 08-01-2013 |
20130236217 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS UNIT INCORPORATING SAME - A development device to develop a latent image using developer having a degree of agglomeration of 54% or greater includes a developer bearer to carry developer thereon, and a developer supply member to contact the developer bearer to supply developer to a surface of the developer bearer. The developer supply member is disposed to satisfy at least one of two conditions: a biting amount of the developer supply member relative to the developer bearer is 0.7 mm or greater; and a contact pressure of the developer supply member against the developer bearer is 30 N/m or greater. | 09-12-2013 |
20130259532 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position. | 10-03-2013 |
20130266332 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including a latent image bearing member, a charger, a latent image forming device, a developing device, and a transfer device is provided. The transfer device is adapted to transfer a toner image formed on the latent image bearing member onto an intermediate transfer member or a recording medium by action of a transfer elected field in a transfer position where the latent image bearing member faces the transfer device. When a non-charged portion of the latent image bearing member that has not been charged to a predetermined potential by the charger passes through the transfer position, a strength of the transfer electric field is lowered than that in transferring the toner image. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266347 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position. | 10-10-2013 |
20140029962 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWDER TRANSPORT UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes a powder container containing powder used for image forming and including an inlet through which the powder is supplied, a powder supply unit including an outlet that is removably connected to the inlet and supplying the powder to the powder container with the outlet connected to the inlet of the powder container, a powder amount detector detecting whether a present powder level in the powder container is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a controller controlling an amount of powder supply from the powder supply unit and controlling the present powder level in the powder container after replenishment to remain in a range from the threshold and a position corresponding to an upper edge of the inlet. A powder transport unit includes a transport decelerating part to decelerate the speed of powder transport and a detection area in the image forming apparatus. | 01-30-2014 |
20140147784 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus, including: | 05-29-2014 |
20140153982 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a nip formation pad disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of an endless belt and a pressing rotary body pressed against the nip formation pad via the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressing rotary body, through which a recording medium is conveyed. The pressing rotary body has a diameter increasing from a center to each lateral end in an axial direction thereof. The nip formation pad includes a projection disposed downstream from a rotation axis of the pressing rotary body in a recording medium conveyance direction. The projection projects toward the pressing rotary body in an amount increasing from each lateral end to a center in a longitudinal direction of the nip formation pad parallel to the axial direction of the pressing rotary body. | 06-05-2014 |
20140161471 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming device that forms a latent image, a latent image carrier that carries the latent image, a development device that develops the latent image, and a controller. The development device includes a developer carrier that faces the latent image carrier and carries toner on a rotary surface thereof that rotates in a rotation direction perpendicular to a width direction of the developer carrier, and a regulation member that regulates the thickness of a layer of the toner on the surface of the developer carrier. The controller moves the toner on lateral end regions in the width direction of the surface of the developer carrier toward the latent image carrier. The end regions are located outside a maximum image forming region within a regulation member facing region of the surface of the developer carrier facing the regulation member. | 06-12-2014 |
20140294449 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position. | 10-02-2014 |
20140356004 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESSING UNIT, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DEVELOPER CONTAINER - A developer container includes: a container body that stores a developer and includes a filling port for the developer; and a container terminal that is attachable to and detachable from the container body. The container body is provided with an identifier that engages with the container terminal and is caused to change own form that can be identified from an outside, by an external force that is applied to detach the container terminal from the container body. The container body is provided with a flow preparation part that separates an inside and outside of the container body before changing the form of the identifier and that allows the air to flow between the inside and outside of the container body after changing the form of the identifier. | 12-04-2014 |
Naoki Nakatake, Kobe-Shi JP
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20100009282 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming method, including charging the surface of an electrostatic latent image bearer by a charger; irradiating the surface of the electrostatic latent image bearer to form an electrostatic latent image thereon; developing the same with a toner to form a toner image; transferring the toner image onto a recording medium; and fixing the toner image thereon, wherein the charger is a charging roller contacting the electrostatic latent image bearer to charge the same, having a ten-point surface roughness of 5 to 30, and the toner includes a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent and an external additive including a composite oxide including titanium oxide in an amount of 80 to 95% by weight and silicon oxide, having a core-shell structure formed of a core including the titanium oxide and a shell including the silicon oxide and has a BET specific surface area of 50 to 100 m | 01-14-2010 |
20100178074 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide an electrophotographic photoconductor including: a substrate; a charge generating layer; and a charge transporting layer, the charge generating layer and the charge transporting layer being disposed over the substrate, wherein the charge transporting layer contains a charge transporting material represented by General Formula (I) below and an additive represented by General Formula (II) below: | 07-15-2010 |
Naoki Nakatake, Hyougo JP
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20090238617 | WASTE-TONER CONVEYING DEVICE, CLEANING DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A waste-toner conveying device includes a conveying unit that conveys foreign matter accumulated inside a container in a conveying path and that includes a coil unit, and a driving unit that drives the conveying unit to rotate. The coil unit includes a first coil on an upstream side and a second coil on a downstream side in a conveying direction, and the first coil and the second coil are connected in an eccentric manner. | 09-24-2009 |
Shigetoshi Nakatake, Kitakyushu-Shi JP
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20080244490 | Sequence-pair creating apparatus and sequence-pair creating method - A sequence-pair creating apparatus includes a block placement storing unit that stores information of size of a block b | 10-02-2008 |
Shinji Nakatake, Shizuoka-Ken JP
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20130054397 | STORE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A store system comprises an image output section configured to output an image captured by an image capturing unit, an object recognition section configured to recognize a specific object by reading the characteristic quantity of the output image and a reporting section configured to report that an object other than a commodity subjected to sales registration is recognized in the condition that the recognized object is the object other than the commodity included in a commodity file storing information for the sales registration. | 02-28-2013 |
20130056286 | SELF CHECKOUT TERMINAL AND METHOD - A self checkout terminal comprises a measurement section configured to measure the weight of a commodity, a shooting section configured to shoot an image, a recognition unit configured to recognize the commodity from the shot image, an extraction unit configured to extract the commodity information satisfying the recognized commodity from a commodity master file storing the commodity information including the weight of the commodity, wherein the commodity information is information satisfying the commodity, a selection unit configured to select the commodity information including a weight approximately the same as the measured weight from the extracted commodity information and a registration unit configured to carry out sales registration on the commodity satisfied by the selected commodity information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130057692 | STORE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A store system comprises an acquisition section configured to acquire an image picked-up by an image pick-up section, a similarity calculation section configured to calculate a similarity which represents a degree with which the reference image of each commodity is similar to the image of an object picked-up by the image pick-up section, a display control section configured to display the commodity information of the commodity corresponding to the reference image with a high similarity as a commodity candidate executing registration processing on a display section based on the similarity calculated by the similarity calculation section, a selection acceptance section configured to accept the selection to the commodity information displayed on the display section and a processing section configured to process the object picked-up by the image pick-up section as the commodity corresponding to the selected commodity information accepted by the selection acceptance section. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058530 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a first imaging section configured to image the holding surface of a holding platform on which an object is held from different directions, a recognition section configured to, read out the characteristics of the object image of a object contained in the first imaged image based on each of the first imaged images that are respectively imaged by the first imaging section from different directions and compare the read characteristics with the pre-stored characteristics of each object, thereby recognizing the object corresponding to the object image every first imaged image and a determination section configured to determine the recognition result of the object held on the holding platform based on the recognition result of the object image every first imaged image. | 03-07-2013 |
Toshirou Nakatake, Kakogawa JP
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20130237256 | MAP GENERATION SYSTEM, MAP GENERATION APPARATUS AND MAP GENERATION METHOD - A map generation apparatus includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute a procedure, the procedure including obtaining position data indicating positions of the terminal device during moving of the terminal device, and read-position data indicating a position at which the terminal device has read data from a recording medium during the moving of the terminal device, storing the position data and the read-position data in the memory, generating a map including the positions indicated by the position data, and displaying that an area on a side of the read-position data among areas set based on a path of the positions indicated by the position data is an area of disposition target of the recording medium, on the generated map. | 09-12-2013 |
Yasuhiro Nakatake, Osaka JP
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20120200482 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - A liquid crystal display panel | 08-09-2012 |
Yasuhiro Nakatake, Osaka-Shi JP
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20120127396 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - An active matrix substrate is provided with a lead wire led from a switching element to a surrounding region; a pad portion formed in the lead wire and positioned in surrounding region; an insulation film including a planarization film positioned uppermost, and a passivation film and a gate insulation film positioned under planarization film, formed so as to cover the pad portion, and having a contact hole formed so as to reach pad portion; and an ITO film positioned in contact hole, and formed on pad portion. ITO film is formed so as to be spaced from planarization | 05-24-2012 |
20120133860 | ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ACTIVE MATRIX SUBSTRATE - An active matrix substrate is provided with a lead wire led out from a switching element to a surrounding region; a pad portion formed in the lead wire, and positioned in surrounding region; an insulation layer formed so as to cover pad portion, including a passivation film formed of an inorganic material, and a planarization film positioned on passivation film and formed of an organic material, and having a contact hole formed so as to reach pad; and an ITO film positioned in contact hole, and formed on pad. ITO film is formed so as to be spaced from a part defined by planarization film in an inner periphery surface of contact hole. | 05-31-2012 |
Yoshihiro Nakatake, Miyazaki JP
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20120195127 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - A non-volatile semiconductor memory includes a plurality of memory cells and a driver for selectively driving the memory cells. The driver includes a first drive portion and a second drive portion. The first drive portion is provided for applying a source voltage higher than a power source voltage to a source region of the memory cell. The second drive portion is provided for applying a specific low voltage to a drain region of the memory cell for writing data having a first logic level, so that a writing current flows in the memory cell. Further, the second drive portion is provided for applying a specific high voltage higher than the power source voltage as a writing prohibition voltage to a drain region of the memory cell for writing data having a second logic level, so that the writing current is prevented from flowing in the memory cell. | 08-02-2012 |